The arrests are considered part of a new wave of crackdowns as the Parliament and President Khatami try to step up the pace of reforms.
The ragtag Occupy Wall Street encampments that sprang up in scores of cities last fall, thrusting "We are the 99 percent" into the vernacular, have largely been dismantled, with a new wave of crackdowns and evictions in the past week.
In December 2016, a fire that broke out at Oakland's Ghost Ship warehouse killed 36 people, igniting a wave of crackdowns on artist-run live/work spaces across the country.
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The lack of a stronger and more visible Latino presence in state politics has undoubtedly facilitated the recent wave of immigration crackdown laws such as Arizona's infamous SB 1070.
Osama al-Nujaifi, the Parliament speaker, who is a Sunni, recently released a statement decrying the wave of government crackdowns, calling them "provocative actions carried out on a daily basis against the population of those areas".
Two years ago, the University of Sussex followed suit after students occupied a campus building over plans to outsource 235 members of staff MP John McDonnell spoke out at the time against what he saw as a wave of intimidating crackdowns against student protesters.
TechCrunch has come to understand that LinkedIn's identity enforcement is linked to the latest wave of government crackdowns.
Just recently, Trump welcomed to the White House the president of Egypt, Abdel Fatah al-Sissi, the military strongman who seized power in Egypt and unleashed a wave of brutal crackdowns and human rights violations. .
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